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Richard Angst in 1929/30 while filming the mountain film Storms over Mont Blanc by Arnold Fanck

Richard Angst (born July 23, 1905 in Zurich , † July 24, 1984 in Berlin ) was a Swiss mountaineer , skier and cameraman .

Life

Family and school

He was the son of the Swiss architect Robert Angst and his German wife Elise Anna Klara, née Vaihinger. In 1938 he married Ilse Charlotte, nee Lange.

Angst grew up in Pforzheim , where his mother came from, where he attended elementary school and then a commercial school.

Professional development

At the age of 18 he met Sepp Allgeier ; both were avid skiers and mountaineers. With him and Arnold Fanck he learned and worked as a camera assistant and photo laboratory assistant in the Berg- und Sport-Film GmbH in Freiburg im Breisgau . There he became part of the Freiburg School . In the credits of the silent film Milak, Der Grönlandjäger (directed by Georgi Asagarow and Bernhard Villinger ) and The Big Jump (directed by Arnold Fanck) he was first mentioned as a camera assistant in 1927, in the first also as an actor. He worked with the cameramen Sepp Allgeier, Albert Benitz , Charles Métain , Kurt Neubert and Hans Schneeberger . In the important mountain films of that time, Angst was one of the regular cameramen of director Fanck, in The White Hell from Piz Palü (1929) and Storms over Mont Blanc (1930). In 1932 the film team traveled to Greenland to shoot the film SOS Eisberg . At the time, the Film-Kurier reported about this trip that fear had saved his colleague Schneeberger from drowning.

In the mid-1930s, Angst took part in the expedition to Borneo led by Victor von Plessen . The film The Headhunters of Borneo was made from the recordings made there .

Angst also took part in the expedition to Japan, where he worked for the Japanese Ministry of the Navy and received a three-year contract from film producer Takeo Ogasawara . He rented a house in a suburb of Tokyo and moved into it with his bride Ilse. There, cultural films and the Fanck film The Daughter of the Samurai were made with various directors .

The film The Demon of the Himalaya was shot as part of the “International Himalaya Expedition 1934” . The expedition was led by Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth . Angst took part in the Himalayan expedition as a cameraman with his wife Friedel .

One of Richard Angst's few points of reference to Switzerland is his film Kleine Scheidegg, based on the script by Richard Schweizer . After 1939 he returned to Germany. There he is involved in the remake of the 1921 film Die Geierwally (1940) by Hans Steinhoff . With this he also shot the film biography Rembrandt (1942). He also worked with the directors Philipp Lothar Mayring , Günther Rittau and Paul Verhoeven .

When the air raids on Berlin increased, Angst withdrew to Tyrol, where he made various homeland films. Immediately after the end of the war he made the feature film High Conquest (1946) with Irving Allen , which contains images of the Swiss mountains. A short film about the ascent of the Matterhorn was made from this material and was awarded the Short Film Oscar . From the 1950s onwards, he was well utilized, including a remake of The White Hell from Piz-Palü (1929), which was released in cinemas under the title Föhn (1950) with Hans Albers and Liselotte Pulver . He shot repeatedly with the directors Franz Josef Gottlieb and Kurt Hoffmann . At the end of the 1950s, Artur Brauner's CCC film brought him back to Berlin. One of the highlights of his work in 1958/59 was the remake of The Indian Tomb and The Tiger of Eschnapur for the director Fritz Lang, who had returned to Germany . Angst also worked with Robert Siodmak . He was behind the camera for the films De Sade and The Honeymoon (1969).

Disappointed about the decline in the German film industry, he withdrew into private life and opened the Provinz restaurant in Berlin-Moabit . In his retirement, Angst wrote his previously unpublished memoirs with the working title of 47 Years Objectively Viewed with the support of the journalist Hans Borgelt . As a lecturer he taught at the University of Television and Film in Munich . He also made a few commercials. In 1983 a portrait of Jörg Moser-Mötius was broadcast about him on German television. Richard Angst died one day after his 79th birthday on July 24, 1984. His urn was buried in the forest cemetery in Grünwald near Munich . The tomb has since been abandoned. The Deutsche Kinemathek manages his estate.

Filmography

Awards

  • 1971: Filmband in Gold - Federal Film Prize for many years of outstanding work in German film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Richard Angst , on: filmportal.de
  2. ↑ Anxiety, Richard . In: Liz-Anne Bawden (Ed.): Rororo Filmlexikon , Vol. 4. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983, p. 796.
  3. ↑ Anxiety, Richard . In: Hans-Michael Bock (Hrsg.): Lexicon directors and cameramen. From AZ . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-60651-8 , p. 24f.
  4. ↑ Anxiety, Richard . In: Michael Esser (ed.): Glitzende Schatten - Camera Pioneers of the Twenties . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1994. ISBN 3-89487-216-0 , pp. 124f.
  5. ↑ Anxiety, Richard . In: Kay Less : The film's large personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, scriptwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, cutters, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century , Vol. 1. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340 -3 , p. 119.
  6. ↑ a b c d e Martin Girod: Richard fear. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 2, 2000 , accessed June 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Anxiety, Richard . In: Hervé Dumont : History of Swiss Film - Feature Films 1896–1965 . Schweizer Filmarchiv / Cinémathèque Suisse (ed.), Lausanne 1987. ISBN 2-88267-001-X .
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Ines Walk: Richard Angst ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on: film-zeit.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.film-zeit.de
  9. ↑ Lisa Blitz: Freiburg as the cradle of German mountain films , July 17, 2017, exhibition at the Museum for City History, Freiburg im Breisgau, on: freiburg.de
  10. ↑ Frieda Grafe: Victory of the will and the toleration . In: The daily newspaper No. 6262 of October 5, 2000, on: taz.de
  11. ↑ Milak, the Greenland Hunter , on: filmportal.de
  12. ↑ Milak, the Greenland Hunter, on: berlinale.de
  13. ↑ The big jump , on: filmportal.de
  14. ↑ Fanck expedition threatened with death - Udet almost shattered on the iceberg - Richard Angst saves Hans Schneeberger from drowning . In: Film-Kurier No. 170 of July 21, 1932, on: cinegraph.de
  15. ^ Leni Riefenstahl: Memoirs . Albrecht Knaus, Munich 1991. ISBN 978-3-8135-0154-4 , pp. 160-172.
  16. ↑ The headhunters of Borneo. Schweizer Film - Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland, accessed on June 7, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Hans-Joachim Bieber: SS and Samurai: German-Japanese Cultural Relations 1933–1945 . ISBN 978-3-8620-5043-7 , pp. 506-508.
  18. ↑ a b c Ann-Catherin Karg: Richard Angst in Japan , on: filmreporter.de
  19. ^ Richard Angst: The Demon of the Himalaya, 1934. Swiss Film - Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland, accessed on June 7, 2020 .
  20. ^ Robert Charles Reimer, Carol J. Reimer: The A to Z of German Cinema . Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8108-7611-8 , pp. 40-41.
  21. ^ Hans-Michael Bock: The Concise Cinegraph - Encyclopaedia of German Cinema . Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford 2009. ISBN 978-0-8574-5565-9 , pp. 12-13.
  22. ↑ Richard Angst Filmband in Gold 1971, on: deutscher-filmpreis.de
personal data
SURNAME Fear, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1984
Place of death Berlin